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标题：Use of a search summary table to improve systematic review search methods, results, and efficiency
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作者：emlrev ; Alison C. Bethel ; Morwenna Rogers 等
期刊名称：Journal of the Medical Library Association
印刷版ISSN：1536-5050
出版年度：2021
卷号：109
期号：1
页码：97-106
DOI：10.5195/jmla.2021.809
出版社：Medical Library Association
摘要：Background: Systematic reviews are comprehensive, robust, inclusive, transparent, and reproducible when bringing together the evidence to answer a research question. Various guidelines provide recommendations on the expertise required to conduct a systematic review, where and how to search for literature, and what should be reported in the published review. However, the finer details of the search results are not typically reported to allow the search methods or search efficiency to be evaluated. Case Presentation: This case study presents a search summary table, containing the details of which databases were searched, which supplementary search methods were used, and where the included articles were found. It was developed and published alongside a recent systematic review. This simple format can be used in future systematic reviews to improve search results reporting. Conclusions: Publishing a search summary table in all systematic reviews would add to the growing evidence base about information retrieval, which would help in determining which databases to search for which type of review (in terms of either topic or scope), what supplementary search methods are most effective, what type of literature is being included, and where it is found. It would also provide evidence for future searching and search methods research.